20,000 badgers killed in this year's cull
“Culling is part of the
government's 25-year strategy to eradicate the disease”, but opponents say
there is no evidence it works.
Figures released by the
government show a total of 19,274
badgers were shot or removed by cage trapping between 6 September and 28
October.
Seven and a half weeks?
The Badger Trust has called on the government to provide
"conclusive evidence" that the cull was reducing levels of TB in
cattle.
"The whole process is not just cruel and inhumane, it
is completely indiscriminate."
Bovine TB affects cattle and
other mammals including humans, badgers, deer, goats, pigs, dogs and cats. Why
not cull cats, dogs or humans?
Tuberculosis (TB) in cattle is
caused by aerobic bacterium, thrives in moist and warm soil and in cattle
faeces. It is killed by sunlight.
SO IS IT CAUSED BY
CONDITIONS CREATED BY FARMERS? What (or who) should be culled......
